A HUNGER ARTIST by Franz Kafka full unabridged audiobook

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • A HUNGER ARTIST is a short story by Franz Kafka - full unabridged audiobook.
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  • @someone9331
    @someone9331 Год назад +26

    Rip franz kafka you would have loved mitski

  • @julietsteed6474
    @julietsteed6474 4 года назад +19

    Bit of an ED mood

  • @nderitupius
    @nderitupius 6 лет назад +8

    This reminded me greatly of Matthew 6
    This dude was all about clout so much that it hit me even the Pharisees and some people in today's world pray to be heard.
    "Truly, I tell you, they have their reward in full already."
    When he asked the crowd "Forgive me." It was show enough that he was doing it for people's acceptance and approval.

    • @JingleJangleJam
      @JingleJangleJam Год назад

      He goes on accepting that people do not know why he fasts, because ''most of them believed, however, he was a publicity-seeker'', and ''he had over the years become accustomed to it.''
      He is an ''artist'', in the sense that he does his fasting for the public, not for himself. ''The two ladies had been selected by lot''.
      The key to the interpretation is the number of days in which the Hunger Artist fasts himself for. 40 days.
      Why 40 and not another number? Kafka himself stubbornly focuses the reader on this point through the Hunger Artist's own inner monologue. It is because of Matthew 4:1 - 11: Jesus tests himself in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, the same number of days as the Hunger Artist.
      So the Hunger Artist is a metaphor for the image of Jesus testing himself for the sake showing his detachment from the physical forms of life.
      There is no foods the Hunger Artist likes because “It is written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’ '', when the tempter, ''when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.'' calls upon him to break his fast.
      Then when the Hunger Artist is being taken by the two ladies selected by lot toward his meal, the two ladies represent Satan and he is fighting and writhing, resisting them taking him to the food to resist temptation.

  • @OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt
    @OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt 3 года назад +5

    I could imagine LibriVox running this story through a LimberFox so that the sound of LibreChocs could melt all over the vocal flow of Kafka's letters and docs...And perhaps, (like lather over rocks), the lepper's socks would fall foul with the smell of fallen feet, now leaderless (and LeaderLoss) in a market where US stocks fall south like the last line of A Hunger Artist: a great Livre whose meaning is behind closed doors, many locks, and centuries of repeated knocks.

  • @kevingil1817
    @kevingil1817 19 дней назад

    I found this story quite similar in concept to in the penal colony. Though it was still useful to have a lot of the sane concepts approached through a different narrative.

  • @TheOKAY
    @TheOKAY 9 лет назад +16

    He couldn't find a food he could enjoy! I burst out laughing when I heard this. I thought he was fasting for some noble cause.

    • @FabAudioBooks
      @FabAudioBooks  9 лет назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed it Theo. That's what it's all about! FAB

    • @jon2386
      @jon2386 5 лет назад +1

      Thanks for your moronic comment.

    • @viciouscircle7802
      @viciouscircle7802 3 года назад +7

      He is, it was his job, the only thing he knew how to do. He isnt satisfied with life. Thats a good reason not to have found a food. Kafka died days after writing this. Life immitates art immitates life immitates art etc. You have to understand Kafka biographically to understand his jokes and referrences. Its about a much bigger subject.

  • @justjones5430
    @justjones5430 3 года назад +2

    This reminded me of the joke about the little German boy who never spoke.

  • @jayshelat66
    @jayshelat66 11 лет назад +2

    Thanks for the upload!

  • @3SIDEGOOF
    @3SIDEGOOF 5 лет назад +1

    25:45

  • @antonk6359
    @antonk6359 8 лет назад +14

    Ultimate Emo author.

    • @alicekliewer
      @alicekliewer 7 лет назад +12

      Anton K
      No, the emo people are based around being pessimistic and depressed for either no reason or ridiculous ones, while Kafka wrote stories commenting on society and the subconscious for further knowledgeable gain. There is a big difference.

    • @antonk6359
      @antonk6359 7 лет назад +1

      Kafka's commentary on society and the subconscious is emo-style
      pessimism/depression. Like emos, there is no reason for Kafka to be so gloomy aside from society "misunderstanding" him. There is not a big difference.

    • @SuperJimJam
      @SuperJimJam 4 года назад +7

      Anton K not really, the metamorphosis is an indictment on the capitalist hierarchal structure of society, the direct antithesis of being emo since his writing isn’t conveying a sentiment of being misunderstood by society; but instead displays to the audience that they do not understand the nature of society. Basically, you have it backwards

    • @eVieww
      @eVieww 3 года назад +4

      nice try, you can type anything in yt comments and get someone agreeing. doesn't mean anything though. thats such a simple minded comparison :D

    • @viciouscircle7802
      @viciouscircle7802 3 года назад

      Existentialism

  • @MrMoose233
    @MrMoose233 8 лет назад +1

    Thx for posting this

    • @portersofhellsgate
      @portersofhellsgate 3 года назад

      Check out our theatrical presentation of The Hunger Artist and let us know what you think! ruclips.net/video/DQ9Z547-pS0/видео.html&ab_channel=PortersOfHellsgate

  • @44thstusedtiresrims10
    @44thstusedtiresrims10 9 лет назад +5

    I know a lawyer who would take the hunger artist case. They forgot about him? I know it's a poem but I'm just saying, in today's society his family would be rich.

  • @maxwellgrove1454
    @maxwellgrove1454 6 лет назад +1

    that was good

    • @portersofhellsgate
      @portersofhellsgate 3 года назад

      Check out our theatrical presentation of The Hunger Artist and let us know what you think! ruclips.net/video/DQ9Z547-pS0/видео.html&ab_channel=PortersOfHellsgate

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen604 5 месяцев назад +1

    Anorexic could make good money doing this.

  • @Calic0HD
    @Calic0HD 9 лет назад +2

    How ironic xD

  • @3SIDEGOOF
    @3SIDEGOOF 5 лет назад

    16:00